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LOT 2402
African Mangbetu Bone Hair Ornament
CONGO, EARLY 20TH CENTURY A.D.
7 1/2 in. (17 grams, 19 cm).
Formed from a slender long bone with crenellated head and smoothed shank, incised ring-and-dot ornament; repaired. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a family collection mostly formed in the 1940s-1950s, thence by descent.
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